The Performance Studies Reader
3rd Edition
Published on 14. August 2015
Book
Hardback
422 pages
978-1-138-02335-2 (ISBN)
Description
Since its first publication in 2002, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies. Now in its third edition, it continues to offer an unparalleled selection of work by the foremost in this continually evolving field.
These critical and theoretical contributions are joined in this edition by 16 new chapters, bringing the collection up to date with current discourse and ideas, and cross referencing exactly with Richard Schechner's Performance Studies: An Introduction. The two volumes combine perfectly to offer a unique and complete teaching resource.
The Reader is also widely used by students and scholars around the world as a stand-alone text, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of Performance Studies.
Each essay now includes new contextual headnotes from the editors, to introduce students to the writer and their impact on the field. Newly added to this edition are contributions from:
Augusto Boal, Jill Dolan, Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun, Erika Fischer Lichte, E. Patrick Johnson, Petra Kuppers, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Bruce McConachie, Jacques Ranciere, Joseph Roach, Rebecca Schneider, Ngugi wa Thiongo
The Reader provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies.
These critical and theoretical contributions are joined in this edition by 16 new chapters, bringing the collection up to date with current discourse and ideas, and cross referencing exactly with Richard Schechner's Performance Studies: An Introduction. The two volumes combine perfectly to offer a unique and complete teaching resource.
The Reader is also widely used by students and scholars around the world as a stand-alone text, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of Performance Studies.
Each essay now includes new contextual headnotes from the editors, to introduce students to the writer and their impact on the field. Newly added to this edition are contributions from:
Augusto Boal, Jill Dolan, Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun, Erika Fischer Lichte, E. Patrick Johnson, Petra Kuppers, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Bruce McConachie, Jacques Ranciere, Joseph Roach, Rebecca Schneider, Ngugi wa Thiongo
The Reader provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-02335-2 (9781138023352)
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Persons
Henry Bial is Professor of Theatre and Director of the School of the Arts at the University of Kansas, USA.
Sara Brady is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.
Sara Brady is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.
Content
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Henry Bial and Sara Brady
Part I
What is Performance Studies?
1 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: THE BROAD SPECTRUM APPROACH
Richard Schechner
2 - THE LIMINAL NORM
Jon McKenzie
3 - PROFESSING PERFORMANCES: DISCIPLINARY GENEALOGIES
Shannon Jackson
4 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
5 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: INTERVENTIONS AND RADICAL RESEARCH
Dwight Conquergood
6 - Social Performance Studies: Discipline vs. Freedom
Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun
Part II
What is Performance?
7 - PERFORMANCES: BELIEF IN THE PART ONE IS PLAYING
Erving Goffman
8 - BLURRED GENRES: THE REFIGURATION OF SOCIAL THOUGHT
Clifford Geertz
9 - EXCERPT FROM "RESTORATION OF BEHAVIOR"
Richard Schechner
10 - WHAT IS PERFORMANCE?
Marvin Carlson
11 - MARINA ABRAMOVIC: WITNESSING SHADOWS
Peggy Phelan
12 - THE BLUNDERS OF ORPHEUS
Joseph Roach
Part III
Ritual
13 - LIMINALITY AND COMMUNITAS
Victor Turner
14 - "PERFORMANCE" AND OTHER ANALOGIES
Catherine Bell
15 - "THE BLOOD THAT RUNS THROUGH THE VEINS": THE CREATION OF IDENTITY AND A CLIENT'S EXPERIENCE OF CUBAN-AMERICAN SANTERIA DILOGUN DIVINATION
Michael Atwood Mason
16 - SAINT ORLAN: RITUAL AS VIOLENT SPECTACLE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Alyda Faber
17 - PERFORMATIVE COMMEMORATIVES, THE PERSONAL, AND THE PUBLIC: SPONTANEOUS SHRINES, EMERGENT RITUAL
Jack Santino
18 - REENACTMENT AND RELATIVE PAIN
Rebecca Schneider
Part IV
Play
19 - THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Johan Huizinga
20 - A THEORY OF PLAY AND FANTASY
Gregory Bateson
21 - THE AMBIGUITY OF PLAY
Brian Sutton-Smith
22 - JUST DOING
Allan Kaprow
23 - AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON PLAY, PERFORMANCE, AND RITUAL
Bruce McConachie
24 - THE SOLDIER CYCLE: HARUN FAROCKI'S IMAGES OF WAR (AT A DISTANCE)
Sara Brady
Part V
Performativity
25 - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS: LECTURE II
J.L. Austin
26 - Excerpt from SIGNATURE EVENT CONTEXT
Jacques Derrida
27 - PERFORMATIVE ACTS AND GENDER CONSTITUTION
Judith Butler
28 - INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMATIVITY AND PERFORMANCE
Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
29 - THEATRE AND ANTHROPOLOGY, THEATRICALITY AND CULTURE
Johannes Fabian
30 - UTOPIAN PERFORMATIVES
Jill Dolan
Part VI
Performing
31 - A DIALOGUE ABOUT ACTING
Bertolt Brecht
32 - THE ACTOR'S TECHNIQUE
Jerzy Grotowski
33 - A DREAM OF PASSION
Lee Strasberg
34 - EXCERPT FROM THE RAINBOW OF DESIRE
Augusto Boal
35 - RECONSIDERING STANISLAVSKY: FEELING, FEMINISM, AND THE ACTOR
Rhonda Blair
36 - Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance
Petra Kuppers
Part VII
Performance Processes
37 - FIRST ATTEMPTS AT A STYLIZED THEATRE
Vsevolod Meyerhold
38 - THE ORAL ARTIST: TRAINING AND PREPARATION
Isidore Okpewho
39 - THE DEEP ORDER CALLED TURBULENCE: THE THREE FACES OF DRAMATURGY
Eugenio Barba
40 - THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE
Mary Zimmerman
41 - Excerpt from Postdramatic Theatre
Hans-Thies Lehmann
42 - Excerpt from The Emancipated Spectator
Jacques Ranciere
43 - From Page to Stage: The Making of Sweet Tea
Patrick E. Johnson
Part VIII
Global and Intercultural Performances
44 - PERFORMING ETHNOGRAPHY
Victor Turner with Edie Turner
45 - OF MIMICRY AND MAN
Homi K. Bhabha
46 - TRANSLATING PERFORMANCE
Diana Taylor
47 - Interweaving Cultures in Performance: Different States of Being In-Between
Erika Fischer-Lichte
48 - Hemispheric America in Deep Time
Jill Lane
49 - Orature and Cyberture
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
50 - Performance Studies 3.0
Henry Bial
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Henry Bial and Sara Brady
Part I
What is Performance Studies?
1 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: THE BROAD SPECTRUM APPROACH
Richard Schechner
2 - THE LIMINAL NORM
Jon McKenzie
3 - PROFESSING PERFORMANCES: DISCIPLINARY GENEALOGIES
Shannon Jackson
4 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
5 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: INTERVENTIONS AND RADICAL RESEARCH
Dwight Conquergood
6 - Social Performance Studies: Discipline vs. Freedom
Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun
Part II
What is Performance?
7 - PERFORMANCES: BELIEF IN THE PART ONE IS PLAYING
Erving Goffman
8 - BLURRED GENRES: THE REFIGURATION OF SOCIAL THOUGHT
Clifford Geertz
9 - EXCERPT FROM "RESTORATION OF BEHAVIOR"
Richard Schechner
10 - WHAT IS PERFORMANCE?
Marvin Carlson
11 - MARINA ABRAMOVIC: WITNESSING SHADOWS
Peggy Phelan
12 - THE BLUNDERS OF ORPHEUS
Joseph Roach
Part III
Ritual
13 - LIMINALITY AND COMMUNITAS
Victor Turner
14 - "PERFORMANCE" AND OTHER ANALOGIES
Catherine Bell
15 - "THE BLOOD THAT RUNS THROUGH THE VEINS": THE CREATION OF IDENTITY AND A CLIENT'S EXPERIENCE OF CUBAN-AMERICAN SANTERIA DILOGUN DIVINATION
Michael Atwood Mason
16 - SAINT ORLAN: RITUAL AS VIOLENT SPECTACLE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Alyda Faber
17 - PERFORMATIVE COMMEMORATIVES, THE PERSONAL, AND THE PUBLIC: SPONTANEOUS SHRINES, EMERGENT RITUAL
Jack Santino
18 - REENACTMENT AND RELATIVE PAIN
Rebecca Schneider
Part IV
Play
19 - THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Johan Huizinga
20 - A THEORY OF PLAY AND FANTASY
Gregory Bateson
21 - THE AMBIGUITY OF PLAY
Brian Sutton-Smith
22 - JUST DOING
Allan Kaprow
23 - AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON PLAY, PERFORMANCE, AND RITUAL
Bruce McConachie
24 - THE SOLDIER CYCLE: HARUN FAROCKI'S IMAGES OF WAR (AT A DISTANCE)
Sara Brady
Part V
Performativity
25 - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS: LECTURE II
J.L. Austin
26 - Excerpt from SIGNATURE EVENT CONTEXT
Jacques Derrida
27 - PERFORMATIVE ACTS AND GENDER CONSTITUTION
Judith Butler
28 - INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMATIVITY AND PERFORMANCE
Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
29 - THEATRE AND ANTHROPOLOGY, THEATRICALITY AND CULTURE
Johannes Fabian
30 - UTOPIAN PERFORMATIVES
Jill Dolan
Part VI
Performing
31 - A DIALOGUE ABOUT ACTING
Bertolt Brecht
32 - THE ACTOR'S TECHNIQUE
Jerzy Grotowski
33 - A DREAM OF PASSION
Lee Strasberg
34 - EXCERPT FROM THE RAINBOW OF DESIRE
Augusto Boal
35 - RECONSIDERING STANISLAVSKY: FEELING, FEMINISM, AND THE ACTOR
Rhonda Blair
36 - Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance
Petra Kuppers
Part VII
Performance Processes
37 - FIRST ATTEMPTS AT A STYLIZED THEATRE
Vsevolod Meyerhold
38 - THE ORAL ARTIST: TRAINING AND PREPARATION
Isidore Okpewho
39 - THE DEEP ORDER CALLED TURBULENCE: THE THREE FACES OF DRAMATURGY
Eugenio Barba
40 - THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE
Mary Zimmerman
41 - Excerpt from Postdramatic Theatre
Hans-Thies Lehmann
42 - Excerpt from The Emancipated Spectator
Jacques Ranciere
43 - From Page to Stage: The Making of Sweet Tea
Patrick E. Johnson
Part VIII
Global and Intercultural Performances
44 - PERFORMING ETHNOGRAPHY
Victor Turner with Edie Turner
45 - OF MIMICRY AND MAN
Homi K. Bhabha
46 - TRANSLATING PERFORMANCE
Diana Taylor
47 - Interweaving Cultures in Performance: Different States of Being In-Between
Erika Fischer-Lichte
48 - Hemispheric America in Deep Time
Jill Lane
49 - Orature and Cyberture
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
50 - Performance Studies 3.0
Henry Bial
INDEX